

Coiled into a near-perfect circle, the ram becomes both subject and cosmology—an emblem of self-contained force whose spiraled horns echo the painting’s looping arabesques. The incandescent orange field presses like heat or ritual fire, while the stippled, mosaic-like surface turns the animal’s body into a terrain of living symbols, where vines and flame-shapes pulse between growth and combustion. By fusing figuration with ornamental pattern, the work reads as a meditation on cyclic vitality: power not as aggression, but as a patient, returning energy that continually remakes its own boundary.